Patents by Inventor Satoshi Nakano
Satoshi Nakano has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20210381710Abstract: A facility apparatus control device includes: first and second image capturing units capturing images of first and second spaces; a data-for-learning generator generating location information on a person in the first space by analyzing a first image captured and extracting therefrom, an image of a range including the person in the first space; a learning unit learning, using the location information and a first extracted image extracted by the data-for-learning generator, a feature of the person in the first space and a staying location of the person in the first space; a person detector detecting a person in the second space by analyzing a second image captured and extracting therefrom, an image of a range including the detected person; and an apparatus controller controlling a facility apparatus installed in the first space using a second extracted image extracted by the person detector and a learned result of the learning unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2018Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventor: Satoshi NAKANO
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Patent number: 11184733Abstract: A mobile terminal capable of obtaining information provided from a server includes: a communication unit capable of communicating with, via a first communication path, an associated terminal in one of a plurality of areas, the associated terminal being placed in the one of the plurality of areas, being a terminal associated with the mobile terminal, and being one of a plurality of area terminals placed in corresponding ones of the plurality of areas; and a display unit capable of displaying service information provided from the server, the service information including first information and second information different from the first information. The display unit displays the first information when the communication unit is able to communicate with the associated terminal, or displays the second information when the communication unit is unable to communicate with the associated terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric CorporationInventors: Satoshi Nakano, Makoto Katsukura, Taichi Ishizaka
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Publication number: 20210314544Abstract: The disclosure relates to a display control device, a display control method, and a recording medium capable of performing more reliable stereoscopic viewing. Whether or not a condition for generating erroneous fusion on a presented image is satisfied on the basis of the display mode of a plurality of display objects arranged side by side in one direction on the presented image at the time of displaying the presented image presented in three-dimensional space. The presented image is expressed by an image for a right eye and an image for a left eye for stereoscopic viewing by using fusion in which the image for a right eye and the image for a left eye are superimposed and recognized as one image. Then, control of applying a predetermined effect to display of the presented image is performed on the basis of the determination result. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a stereoscopic display system using a head-mounted display.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventor: SATOSHI NAKANO
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Patent number: 11102456Abstract: A camera generates a first video having visibility lower than a predetermined visibility suitable for a process using a video in a video output apparatus, encodes the generated first video, and transmits the encoded first video, and an adjustment instruction including a parameter for adjusting the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility, to the video output apparatus. The video output apparatus acquires the first video and the adjustment instruction, transmitted from the camera, adjusts the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility by using the parameter, based on the adjustment instruction, and outputs the adjusted video to an output unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Nakano, Jun Ikeda, Tetsuo Tanaka, Mari Yasuda, Manabu Higuchi
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Publication number: 20210231339Abstract: A controller includes: a floor-map-information storing unit storing floor map information indicating a position of each sensor terminal in a room air-conditioned by an air conditioner; a user-registration-information storing unit storing user registration information including first identification information indicating a user who may be in the room and positional information indicating a position occupied by the user when the user is in the room; a user information acquiring unit acquiring, from a user terminal, user information including second identification information indicating the user using the user terminal and target temperature information; and an air-conditioning control unit controlling, when the user using the user terminal is in the room, the air conditioner such that temperature detected by one of the sensor terminals at a position near the user in the room approaches target temperature indicated in the target temperature information based on floor map information, user registration informatioType: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2018Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventor: Satoshi NAKANO
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Patent number: 11039124Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of presenting an object that is easy to be in a fusion state where connection is natural regardless of a distance, an information processing method, and a recording medium. In the information processing apparatus, a left-eye image and a right-eye image are output to acquire position information of an object in a depth direction to be perceived by a user, and a luminance correction region to be subjected to luminance correction is set to at least one of a first display region that is included in a display region for the left-eye image and overlaps a display region for the right-eye image, or a second display region that is included in the display region for the right-eye image and overlaps the display region for the left-eye image on the basis of the position information. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a transmissive HMD.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2018Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kayoko Tanaka, Kazuma Aiki, Hiroshi Yuasa, Satoshi Nakano
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Publication number: 20210058734Abstract: A mobile terminal capable of obtaining information provided from a server includes: a communication unit capable of communicating with, via a first communication path, an associated terminal in one of a plurality of areas, the associated terminal being placed in the one of the plurality of areas, being a terminal associated with the mobile terminal, and being one of a plurality of area terminals placed in corresponding ones of the plurality of areas; and a display unit capable of displaying service information provided from the server, the service information including first information and second information different from the first information. The display unit displays the first information when the communication unit is able to communicate with the associated terminal, or displays the second information when the communication unit is unable to communicate with the associated terminal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Satoshi NAKANO, Makoto KATSUKURA, Taichi ISHIZAKA
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Publication number: 20200359008Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus capable of presenting an object that is easy to be in a fusion state where connection is natural regardless of a distance, an information processing method, and a recording medium. In the information processing apparatus, a left-eye image and a right-eye image are output to acquire position information of an object in a depth direction to be perceived by a user, and a luminance correction region to be subjected to luminance correction is set to at least one of a first display region that is included in a display region for the left-eye image and overlaps a display region for the right-eye image, or a second display region that is included in the display region for the right-eye image and overlaps the display region for the left-eye image on the basis of the position information. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a transmissive HMD.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2018Publication date: November 12, 2020Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Kayoko TANAKA, Kazuma AIKI, Hiroshi YUASA, Satoshi NAKANO
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Patent number: 10634074Abstract: In an EGR device configured to reflux part of exhaust gas of the engine as EGR gas into intake air of the engine, an EGR valve configured to restrict a flow rate of the EGR gas is closed when rotation speed N of the engine is between a low-speed threshold and a high-speed threshold, and fuel injection rate is between a low-injection rate threshold and a high-injection rate threshold that are set for each rotation speed.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.Inventors: Ryo Yuki, Satoshi Nakano, Takuya Ishiguro
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Patent number: 10589329Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for descaling that make it possible to effectively remove oxide scale from the surface of a metal wire. The descaling includes spraying the surface of a metal wire (W) with a mixture (9) of water and hard particles from a plurality of nozzles (8). The plurality of nozzles (8) include a plurality of self-cleaning nozzles that spray at a spray angle (?) of 90° or smaller with respect to the metal wire (W). The spray angle (?) is the angle formed by the central axis (X) of the spraying and a vector (Vt) indicating a conveyance direction that originates at the intersection (P) of the central axis (X) and the metal wire surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Kobe Steel, Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Nakano, Shigehiro Yamane
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Publication number: 20190191129Abstract: A camera generates a first video having visibility lower than a predetermined visibility suitable for a process using a video in a video output apparatus, encodes the generated first video, and transmits the encoded first video, and an adjustment instruction including a parameter for adjusting the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility, to the video output apparatus. The video output apparatus acquires the first video and the adjustment instruction, transmitted from the camera, adjusts the visibility of the first video to be equivalent to the predetermined visibility by using the parameter, based on the adjustment instruction, and outputs the adjusted video to an output unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi NAKANO, Jun IKEDA, Tetsuo TANAKA, Mari YASUDA, Manabu HIGUCHI
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Patent number: 10091521Abstract: To provide an image encoding device that can record desired hours of encoded data in a recording medium having a predetermined storage capacity, in a VBR encoding system. An image encoding device includes an image encoding unit that encodes a plurality of sequentially input images to generate a plurality of encoded data that configures video data, an average image complexity calculation unit that calculates average image complexity of complexity of the input images in a fluctuation cycle, based on the plurality of encoded data, and a code amount control unit that controls a code amount of the encoded data generated in the image encoding unit based on the average image complexity.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventors: Satoshi Nakano, Mari Yasuda, Tetsuo Tanaka, Jun Ikeda
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Patent number: 10025100Abstract: An optical device includes: a light guide plate receiving, for each of N types of wavelength bands, a plurality of parallel light beams with different incident angles each corresponding to view angles, and guiding the received parallel light beams; a first and a second volume hologram gratings of reflection type having a diffraction configuration which includes N types of interference fringes each corresponding to the N types of wavelength bands, and diffracting/reflecting the parallel light beams. The optical device satisfies for each wavelength band, a relationship of ‘P>L’, where ‘L’ represents a central diffraction wavelength in the first and second volume hologram gratings, defined for a parallel light beam corresponding to a central view angle, and ‘P’ represents a peak wavelength of the parallel light beams.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Katsuyuki Akutsu, Satoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Mukawa
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Patent number: 9932919Abstract: In an engine, a controller is configured to fully close the opening of EGR valve when a cut condition is satisfied and variably control the opening when a cut release condition is satisfied. An operating zone is defined as a zone surrounded by a characteristic curve indicating a relationship between rotation speed and torque. The operating zone comprises a high operating zone containing an NTE zone, and a low operating zone that is set at a lower torque side and at a lower rotation speed side with respect to the high operating zone. The cut condition is that an operating condition specified by the rotation speed and the torque is kept within the low operating zone during a predetermined time or more. The cut release condition is that the operating condition falls within the high operating zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Nakano, Ryou Yuuki
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Publication number: 20180065145Abstract: The steel wire surface treatment method of the present invention is a method for continuously treating the surface of a steel wire and includes: a descaling step P2 in which scale adhering to the surface of a steel wire is removed by subjecting the surface of the steel wire to wet blasting; a coating film treatment step P5 in which a coating film is formed on the surface of the steel wire after completion of the descaling step P2; and a water amount controlling step P3 in which the water amount on the surface of the steel wire immediately before performing the coating film treatment step P5 is adjusted to a prescribed water amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2016Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventor: Satoshi NAKANO
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Publication number: 20180043408Abstract: Provided are a method and a device for descaling that make it possible to effectively remove oxide scale from the surface of a metal wire. The descaling includes spraying the surface of a metal wire (W) with a mixture (9) of water and hard particles from a plurality of nozzles (8). The plurality of nozzles (8) include a plurality of self-cleaning nozzles that spray at a spray angle (?) of 90° or smaller with respect to the metal wire (W). The spray angle (?) is the angle formed by the central axis (X) of the spraying and a vector (Vt) indicating a conveyance direction that originates at the intersection (P) of the central axis (X) and the metal wire surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2015Publication date: February 15, 2018Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA KOBE SEIKO SHO (Kobe Steel, Ltd.)Inventors: Satoshi NAKANO, Shigehiro YAMANE
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Publication number: 20180011321Abstract: An optical device includes: a light guide plate receiving, for each of N types of wavelength bands, a plurality of parallel light beams with different incident angles each corresponding to view angles, and guiding the received parallel light beams; a first and a second volume hologram gratings of reflection type having a diffraction configuration which includes N types of interference fringes each corresponding to the N types of wavelength bands, and diffracting/reflecting the parallel light beams. The optical device satisfies for each wavelength band, a relationship of ‘P>L’, where ‘L’ represents a central diffraction wavelength in the first and second volume hologram gratings, defined for a parallel light beam corresponding to a central view angle, and ‘P’ represents a peak wavelength of the parallel light beams.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2016Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Katsuyuki Akutsu, Satoshi Nakano, Hiroshi Mukawa
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Patent number: 9706338Abstract: There is provided an information processing device including a determination unit that, when in each of a plurality of spaces short-range wireless communication is simultaneously performed in each space using a plurality of wireless communication devices, determines a channel to be used in each space for each space based on a predetermined rule, and a control unit that performs control of setting the channel determined in accordance with the space in which the wireless communication device is used in the wireless communication device.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Toshiyuki Nakagawa, Masayuki Ato, Ikuo Matsumura, Satoshi Nakano, Takeshi Iwatsu
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Patent number: 9664906Abstract: A display that includes a frame to be worn on a head of an observer, two image creation devices, two light guides to guide light beams output from the image creation devices and to output the light beams toward pupils of the observer, and an optical plate attached to a center part of the frame and attached to a periphery part of the light guides via an adhesive. The center part of the frame is thicker than an outside part of the frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Hiroshi Mukawa, Atsushi Kagawa, Satoshi Nakano, Keita Hibi, Yohei Fukuma, Tomoaki Takuma
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Publication number: 20170058794Abstract: In an EGR device configured to reflux part of exhaust gas of the engine as EGR gas into intake air of the engine, an EGR valve configured to restrict a flow rate of the EGR gas is closed when rotation speed N of the engine is between a low-speed threshold and a high-speed threshold, and fuel injection rate is between a low-injection rate threshold and a high-injection rate threshold that are set for each rotation speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Ryo Yuki, Satoshi Nakano, Takuya Ishiguro